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Recent Examples of disgraceful Utterly disgraceful behaviour towards a man minding his own business. Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025 What kids are wearing to school these days would have been disgraceful in my day. Matt Richtel, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2025 But, first, the President’s disgraceful Gaza plans. David Remnick, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2025 The decision to go after families in safe places sends a disgraceful message that threatens to emotionally scar young children whose families may be deported and other young children caught up in the crossfire. Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for disgraceful
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Adjective
  • Third-party cookies are notorious for helping analytics firms and advertisers track users’ activities, potentially violating their online privacy.
    Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 22 Apr. 2025
  • El Salvador's top Catholic leader on Sunday urged President Nayib Bukele not to turn the country into a Guantanamo-style U.S. prison, after Bukele made a deal with Washington to house deported migrants from the United States in a notorious jail.
    CBS News, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Returning to Churchill after his infamous two-year-plus-one-year Churchill ban dating from Medina Spirit’s 2021 betamethasone disqualification, Baffert was buoyant about the work.
    Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Suggestions that Marseille’s players had refused to train inevitably resurrected memories of the infamous training-ground strike at the South African resort of Knysna that contributed to the France national team’s spectacular derailment at the 2010 World Cup.
    Tom Williams, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The mood shifts from shady to straight-up scandalous.
    Shelby Stewart, Essence, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Instead, Fenix lost the biggest match of his young WWE career, albeit under shady circumstances, while Americano picked up a WrestleMania win.
    Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 20 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Karen Read’s attorneys are taking an approach of highlighting inconsistencies in the testimony of witnesses involved in the case, according to Sydney Rushing, a criminal defense attorney based in Michigan offering analysis on TikTok.
    Michael Loria, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The decision struck down a San Francisco court’s decision that said imposing criminal penalties on homeless encampments violated the Constitution, allowing states to ban people from sleeping and camping in public areas.
    Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Even children and adolescents express more willingness to shun and punish moral transgressors than people who do something personally obnoxious or offensive but not immoral.
    Jen Cole Wright, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Regardless of what transpired between the two cast members, on or off screen, Aspen was unfairly portrayed as an immoral character.
    Taylor Crumpton, Essence, 11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The Lakers trailed by as many as 27 points, their performance at Crypto.com Arena so shameful that even one of the worst coaches in franchise history felt emboldened enough to criticize their current sideline leader.
    Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2025
  • Trump’s reign of terror recalls a shameful chapter in our history: The alien and sedition acts of 1798, under which journalists were jailed for criticizing President John Adams.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2025

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“Disgraceful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disgraceful. Accessed 5 May. 2025.

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